Yep.

Give a rich man a dollar and all you’ve done societally is remove a dollar from the economy. If you instead make him give that money to his employees things change, but cause poor people actually need money and will spend it.

You give a poor person that dollar through increased minimum wage and they spend it at a business. That business now makes more money, which is passed on to its employees through the increased minimum wage, and they spend that dollar again.

And again.

And again.

That dollar you took from the rich and gave to the poor drove a lot more than a dollar’s economic activity.

OH - and it’s also taxed every time it changes hands, so it also brings in more than its initial value in tax revenue.

Oh, they are. He’s got a pretty serious security team that doesn’t fuck around.

If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn’t be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.

You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there’s nothing going on.

I have a mini cargo van as my everyday car that can move quite a bit of cargo, but I also bottom out if I go on a road that’s too bumpy.

The family truck has the clearance to go off the pavement.

Most states charge a regressive sales tax. By your logic, the fact that people don’t refuse to pay sales tax at the register proves that people enjoy it!

That’s why it’s dangerous. If it were wrong 99% of the time people wouldn’t trust it. But being right most of the time risks people depending on it and acting on bad information which can have severe consequences.

Except AI is famously unreliable with the accuracy of its answers.

Actually, this can be good for the Republicans. The pro-life crowd is a minority, but also the biggest, most reliable single-issue voting block.

Having it as a ballot initiative lets pro-choice Republicans vote to end the ban while the GOP still panders to the pro-life voters.

He shot a Republican donor lawyer.

It was the second time a sitting Vice President shot an attorney.

Younger than the Dynatac.

Younger than the Dynatac.

People don’t see to understand what happened here.

The Open Library was a great tool designed specifically to let anyone access books without violating copyright. It was an elegant solution that allowed ohysical books that weren’t being used to be checked out digitally, and digital licenses to be loaned out from partner libraries, but kept track of the licenses so that it kept the 1:book/person limit.

During Covid, they intentionally disabled the systems that prevented multiple concurrent copies of a single license being used, and the publishers went along with it because national emergency, and because physical libraries were closed, so there were millions of unused books that were unavailable.

After the lockdown ended, the publishers asked the Internet Archive to return to the old system, and they refused to do it until they were sued.

They intentionally disabled the protections that kept everything legal, and when asked to stop doing illegal shit they refused. It’s absolutely their own fault.

School Massacre are nothing new in the US.

The deadliest school-killing in American history was in 1927, killing 38 children and 6 adults and wounded about 60 more. The killer was the school board treasurer and had spent the previous few months buying and stealing dynamite around his farm and the school as well as his truck.

The difference since Columbine is the celebration of mass shootings. The media makes celebrities out of the killers and make graphics breaking down the planning, supplies, tactics, and more. They’re essentially helping the next maniac plan a “better” killing.

It’s not suppression of speech. It’s the consequence of refusal to even acknowledge the legitimacy of the Courts by refusing to appoint council.

I had an Italian greyhound who was by far the smartest dog I ever owned.

And she was 100% untrainable. She was a genius, but she was also the most stubborn creature in the planet.

She also loved to cuddle, but only if it was her demanding it of you. If you saw her coming to the couch to hop up fornsxritches and invited her up, she’d walk away because she was NOT going to obey.

Fuck that.

Let’s look at minimum wage at the time he was imprisoned: $3.35/hour. Make that his wage the entire time he was in prison. After the first 40 hours a week he’d get OT, so it comes out to about $3,300/month. Since he wasn’t able to spend that money, let’s put a monthly payment into the market, with an average return of 7%…

That would put him at $6,587,619.39 at the end of 37 years if we value his freedom at the 1987 minimum wage.

That should be the opening bid from he state.

It also kinda nukes all their bitching about replacing Biden.

Biden was never officially nominated. Vance was. It’s a much bigger deal that shows weakness in the party.

Because when you think Pizza, you think Trenton.

It would be half-true if we hadn’t gotten rid of a letter (the thorn, which made the"th" sound)

For a long time, they used the letter “Y” instead of “th”.

That’s how we have weird relationships with old English words like “You/Thou,” and “The/Ye.”

I’m actually impressed a former president currently running for reelection managed to fuck up pandering to the military so bad the Army called him out for it.